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Guillermo Cabrera Infante Quotes

I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.

Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: cuban
Birth: April 22, 1929 - February 21, 2005

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Myself Think Write Like Writer He

We sometimes forget that human invention can also be a subject of human invention: that might seem a modern notion, or a postmodern one, but novelists have taken time - sometimes time out from their realist fixations - to source and satirise the speech and power we rely on.

Power Time Speech Forget Sometimes

I have very strong feelings about what modern fame means, and the toxicity of it.

Andrew Garfield

Strong Feelings Fame Modern Means

It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.

Technology Medical Me Years Pace

The ethics of editorial judgement, however, began to go though a sea change during the late 1970s and '80s when the Carter and Reagan Administrations de-regulated the television industry.

Change Sea Ethics Late Television

Came to acting pretty late. It looked wonderful, but I guess I was intimidated by my father. I look a bit like him, and he was so much bigger than life and so great, it took me a bit longer than most people to have enough confidence in myself.

Life Father Confidence Great Myself

I didn't realise I lived in the ghetto until we moved out.

Ghetto Out Lived Moved Until

I don't dress to impress; I've never been that person.

Dress Person Never Impress Been

I'm just here for this one purpose, and that's to try and get better each and every day and try and win as much as I can, while I can.

Day Purpose Win Better Every Day

No one can disgrace us but ourselves.

Us Ourselves Disgrace

Film allows me to ask some really big questions with the time to explore them deeply. I love the form.

Love Time Me Questions Explore Ask

Having my feet be as good as I want them to be can get me out of a lot of problems when I'm in the pocket and stuff starts to break down. There's rarely ever a perfect pocket.

Good Me Feet Problems Perfect Down

You have a laugh line; don't accentuate it. You get a bigger laugh.

Dick Van Patten

Laugh You Line Bigger Get

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